Talk:Gregg Rolie

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Black Magic Woman[edit]

Black Magic Woman is Peter Green's "hit". First sung by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac... 85.105.101.137 (talk) 22:18, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The Storm[edit]

Rolie founded a band called The Storm in the early 1990s, who issued one reasonably (but not spectacularly) successful album in 1991, but whose second album was shelved after it was recorded in 1993 and was not released for several years. I removed an uncited claim that this was "due to the industry's shifting focus to favor rap and alternative music audiences." The band's problems appear to have been caused by issues with their own label, not a music industry-wide black-out of their style of music. The comment I deleted is an example of a very common misconception (seen in many wikipedia articles) that only 1 or 2 genres of popular music are commercially viable at any given time. If you look at the charts during the mid-1990s, you see all sorts of styles on those charts other than rap or alternative rock, including The Storm's brand of Journey-influenced melodic rock. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 02:33, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Departure from Santana[edit]

How could Rolie have left the Santana band in 1971, as stated in the article, AND have played on Caravanserai in 1972? A P Monblat (talk) 15:17, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Without my looking into exactly when he left the band, the "how" might be the result of a time lag between recording an album and releasing it.

Currently we are in such a lag with Journey. The album Freedom was recorded in 2020-2021 and includes (we're told) Randy Jackson and Narada Michael Walden, who no longer seem to be in the band, as they did not perform on the spring 2022 tour. Dave Golland (talk) 16:59, 28 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's just that Caravanserai was recorded February 21–May 5, 1972, according to the Wikipedia article on it. A P Monblat (talk) 20:01, 1 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like you've found a mistake! You know what to do. Dave Golland (talk) 19:27, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]